Month: October 2015

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All’s not fair in love and war…

This past weekend, American forces bombed a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz, Afghanistan. In a most embarrassing admission, President Obama expressed his condolences to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) president Joanne Liu,

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/07/doctors-without-borders-bombing-no-advance-warning-aid-charity-says

I have been a long time supporter of this organization and will do what I can to donate money so that they continue their efforts to provide healthcare to the most vulnerable citizens of the world. I am so ashamed of the atrocities that have been inflicted upon people who came there seeking help in the comfort of a trusted organization.

Victims of war should not have to cower in fear of their lives at hospitals. The rules of engagement were broken. MSF deserves more than an apology. I hope President Obama will allow a full independent investigation so that we will know the truth as to how this serious lapse of care happened.

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Children’s Hope Malawi

This week the UN ratified 17 goals to end poverty and promote education worldwide. While debates rage on in regards to who is going to fund this initiative, eager people across the world took part in an online declaration to do our part to end poverty. My mother founded an NGO called Children’s Hope Malawi. It started off as an organization called Mtogolo Village Community Based Organization (Mtogolo Village is a collection of villages in the Malemia district in Domasi, Zomba).

This organization started simply with an early education childhood development centre and is slowly developing into much more. With adequate funding and directives, we are hoping to build a self-sustainable model by 2019 so that the initiatives will be self-funded through income generating activities.

Today we gathered with the children to take a picture and unite with the Twittersphere in solidarity in the hope that we can achieve this goal. IMG_4971